A vivid journey back to the time of Krishna, his holy city, and the Mahabharata War Transporting us back five thousand years to the time of Krishnavatara, the age in which Krishna lived, Vanamali leads us on a journey alongside Lord Krishna as he reigns over the ancient port city of Dwaraka and helps the Pandavas through the Mahabharata War. Recounting ecstatic celebrations, Krishna's love for his wives and sons, and events surrounding the epic war, the author stresses Krishna's ability to con...
Brahmanical Gods In Burma: A Chapter Of Indian Art And Iconography
by Niharranjan Ray
Stanley Lombardo's new verse translation of the most famous free-standing sequence from the great Indian epic The Mahabharata hews closely to the meaning, verse structure, and performative quality of the original and is invigorated by its judicious incorporation of key Sanskrit terms in transliteration, for which a glossary is also provided. The translation is accompanied by Richard H. Davis' brilliant Introduction and Afterword. The latter, "Krishna on Modern Fields of Battle," offers a fasci...
"In this jewel-like volume, the venerable Tirtha Maharaja recounts the nectarean activities of the associates of Lord Gauranga and the acharyas of the Gaudiya Vaishnava religion." --Swami B.P. Puri, Founder Acharya, Gopinath Gaudiya Math Srila Bhakti Ballabha Tirtha Goswami Maharaja has gathered a great deal of information about the lives of the devotees from numerous sources, and has made this information more relishable by virtue of his own insight. These biographies of Mahaprabhu's devot...
Valmiki Ramayan Simplified Part 7 (Indian Mythology, #7)
by Krishnakumar T K
Rama and the Early Avatars of Vishnu (Galaxy of Hindu Gods, #3)
by Swami Achuthananda
From the Wisdom of Ben Sira to the writings of Paul, many Second Temple Jewish and early Christian texts recognize the inescapable role of testing and temptation in human experience. Though God is often presented as one who tests, testing is also attributed to Satan, Mastema, the people of God, and individual humans. How did ancient interpreters react to texts that depict the God of Israel as testing, tested, or intervening on behalf of those undergoing a test? What assumptions do authors have a...
This is the first book fully dedicated to Indian philosophical doxography. It examines the function such dialectical texts were intended to serve in the intellectual and religious life of their public. It looks at Indian doxography both as a witness of inter- and intra-sectarian dialogues and as a religious phenomenon. It argues that doxographies represent dialectical exercises, indicative of a peculiar religious attitude to plurality, and locate these ‘exercises’ within a known form of ‘yoga’ d...
Die Seele im Kosmos (Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia, XXXII)
Die Schrift De antro Nympharum ist die langste aus der Antike erhaltene allegorische Deutung einer Stelle aus den Dichtungen Homers. Der neuplatonische Philosoph Porphyrios (spateres 3. Jh. n. Chr.) nutzt die Beschreibung der auf der Insel Ithaka gelegenen Nymphengrotte aus dem 13. Buch der Odyssee fur eine faszinierende Auslegung, die Einblicke in Strategien und Wirkungsabsichten einer jahrhundertealten Homerexegese gibt und neuplatonische Aneignungsweisen der literarischen Tradition beispielha...
Namdev is a central figure in the cultural history of India, especially within the field of bhakti, a devotional practice that has created publics of memory for over eight centuries. Born in the Marathi-speaking region of the Deccan in the late thirteenth century, Namdev is remembered as a simple, low-caste Hindu tailor whose innovative performances of devotional songs spread his fame widely. He is central to many religious traditions within Hinduism, as well as to Sikhism, and he is a key early...
Welche Bedeutung hat der Manichaismus fur Augustin und seine Theologie? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, untersuchen Volker Henning Drecoll und Mirjam Kudella in drei Schritten die Zeit Augustins als Manichaer, seinen Kampf gegen den Manichaismus und die Frage eines moeglichen Einflusses des Manichaismus auf Augustins Theologie. Zunachst wird der nordafrikanische Manichaismus dargestellt, wobei eine Vermischung mit Nachrichten aus den koptischen Manichaica oder spateren Quellen konsequent vermiede...
Shiva, the most ancient and complex deity of the Hindu pantheon, has been portrayed in many contrasting lights: destroyer and benefactor, ascetic and householder, wild demon slayer and calm yogi atop Mount Kailash. Drawing from the Hindu sacred text the Shiva Mahapurana--said to be written by Shiva himself--Vanamali selects the essential stories of Shiva, both those from his dark wild side and those from his benevolent peaceful side. Vanamali discusses Shiva's many avatars such as Shambunatha an...
Shri Ram Paintings of Ayodhya India (Indian Culture & Heritage Series Book, #1)
by Anurag Mathur